What do I mean by traditional publishing? I mean getting a literary agent who sells your book to an acquiring editor at a publishing house (either Big 5 or indie publisher). I’m talking about the type of publishing where you don’t have to pay money. I’m not talking about self-publishing, hybrid publishing, or publishing short pieces online or in magazines…. View Post
Brianna Bourne grew up in Indonesia and Egypt and now lives in England with her husband and their two young daughters. When she’s not writing, she is a stage manager for ballet companies around the world, and her 2021 debut novel, You & Me at the End of the World, is a YA romance with a speculative twist: teenage ballet dancer… View Post
#PitMad is a Twitter pitch event that happens four times a year. Unagented writers with finished, polished manuscripts tweet pitches for their book in hopes that an agent might see one of their tweets and “like” it. A like from an agent means they are interested in your project and you should query them immediately. The next #PitMad will likely be… View Post
You know how it goes. You sit down at your computer and stare at the blinking cursor. You type a sentence. You erase it. You get a snack and drop crumbs all over your keyboard. You wait for the muse to show up, but she seems to be on vacation. Maybe you’re stuck trying to decide how to start. Maybe… View Post
Writing Novels No One Wants I wrote my first novel at the age of 24. And now, at the terrifying age of 40, I have written eight complete manuscripts. The first few were practice novels, never to leave the depths of my computer, but the most recent two are pretty good, I think. Not perfect, but worthy of going out… View Post